A bra, however, can be a very easy place to hide things.
The vaginal cavity isn't in any question here. They didn't do a cavity search of any kind - they just asked her to stretch her underwear to prove she wasn't hiding anything. That would obviously have been way out of bounds for anything involving a child.
I have no objection to blocking strip searches for OTC drugs, or relatively harmless things of that nature. Or on requiring a female nurse or someone like that to do the search. Or getting some kind of warrant before doing it.
But the more restrictions are placed on what schools are allowed to do to ensure the safety of the building occupants, the more students will take advantage of it.
To give a personal example. Just last week, at the school I teach at, we were determined by legal advisers to be unable to search students' clothes to find balloons they were carrying - and in some cases had been heard admitting openly they were carrying - with the intent to fill them with bleach and throw them. They did in fact do this later in the day, and several people were hospitalized as a result, which doesn't even include those with minor injuries, including myself (I have a minor chemical burn from left shoulder to left hip). And this was not in the kind of school where this kind of thing is traditionally reported - this is a high-ranking public school in an affluent area. It can happen anywhere.
I'm so sorry that happened to you, that's terrible.
khava is right, though. This decision has a lot to do with the nature of the contraband and how the school went about it. In a situation like yours, I don't see why they couldn't get a warrant.
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Date: 2009-06-25 04:35 pm (UTC)The vaginal cavity isn't in any question here. They didn't do a cavity search of any kind - they just asked her to stretch her underwear to prove she wasn't hiding anything. That would obviously have been way out of bounds for anything involving a child.
I have no objection to blocking strip searches for OTC drugs, or relatively harmless things of that nature. Or on requiring a female nurse or someone like that to do the search. Or getting some kind of warrant before doing it.
But the more restrictions are placed on what schools are allowed to do to ensure the safety of the building occupants, the more students will take advantage of it.
To give a personal example. Just last week, at the school I teach at, we were determined by legal advisers to be unable to search students' clothes to find balloons they were carrying - and in some cases had been heard admitting openly they were carrying - with the intent to fill them with bleach and throw them. They did in fact do this later in the day, and several people were hospitalized as a result, which doesn't even include those with minor injuries, including myself (I have a minor chemical burn from left shoulder to left hip). And this was not in the kind of school where this kind of thing is traditionally reported - this is a high-ranking public school in an affluent area. It can happen anywhere.
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Date: 2009-06-26 12:01 am (UTC)